English-French translations for larva

• larve
  Je rappellerai brièvement que le maïs transgénique a été rendu résistant à la larve d'un insecte ravageur. I will briefly recall the fact that transgenic maize has been made resistant to the larva of a crop-devastating insect.
  Les scientifiques ont récemment révélé que, tout comme les cabillauds se nourrissent de crevettes, les crevettes se nourrissent de larves de cabillaud. Scientists have recently revealed that, just as the cod fish will eat prawns, prawns eat cod larvae.
  Mais il est également un fait que les crevettes se nourrissent de larves de cabillaud : le cabillaud disparu, elles peuvent donc ne jamais revenir. But it is also a fact that prawns feed on cod larvae, so once the cod have gone they may never return.
• chenille

Definition of larva

• An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish
• A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage

Related words

• larval
• larvacean
• larvae
• larva tadpole
• mosquito larva